Is Crossref Down? Current Status and Outages
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Current Crossref status
Crossref is working normally
IsDown last checked Crossref status on at . We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.
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Monitoring since Dec 2025
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70 incidents caught
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41 components tracked in real-time
Crossref service health over the last 24 hours
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Crossref service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. Sign up to get alerts when Crossref is down.
Outage Map
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Crossref Downtime Health — Last 90 Days
In the last 90 days, Crossref had 10 incidents (7 major outages and 3 minor incidents) with a median duration of 5 hours 33 minutes.
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Recent Crossref outages detected
Full incident reports for recent Crossref outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.
10 days
Sep 14, 2026 at 07:19 PM
about 24 hours
Aug 20, 2026 at 10:13 AM
| Title | IsDown detected At | Duration |
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Request to the Metadata Plus pool of the REST API are receiving 401 responses (access denied). We...
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Oct 05, 2026 at 12:21 PM UTC
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about 4 hours |
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The test admin system has been down since about 09:30 UTC, so members will see a 503 Service Unav...
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Oct 04, 2026 at 11:30 AM UTC
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1 day |
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Our test admin tool is down at the moment. Members are receiving a 503 service unavailable messag...
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Sep 27, 2026 at 01:22 AM UTC
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37 minutes |
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Members attempting to access the test admin tool - test.crossref.org - are experiencing the follo...
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Sep 21, 2026 at 02:57 AM UTC
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about 7 hours |
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www.crossref.org was down for 70 mins on Sunday, 13 September; we're monitoring for the coming weeks
Yesterday, 13 September, we reported an incident with our website: www.crossref.org. It was down ...
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Sep 14, 2026 at 11:19 PM UTC
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10 days |
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Our main website at www.crossref.org was down for 70 minutes earlier, from 11:13 to 12:23 UTC. It...
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Sep 13, 2026 at 02:39 PM UTC
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about 22 hours |
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We had an issue with submission notifications going down around 0:00 UTC today. We re-enabled tho...
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Sep 09, 2026 at 04:25 PM UTC
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about 4 hours |
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Crossref Metadata Search has been down and returning a 504 error since approximately 13:00 UTC. ...
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Aug 20, 2026 at 02:13 PM UTC
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about 24 hours |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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Aug 09, 2026 at 09:46 PM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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Some users are currently experiencing login issues with the Admin Tool, New Metadata Manager, and...
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Jul 14, 2026 at 08:36 AM UTC
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about 1 hour |
Crossref Scheduled Maintenances
Check upcoming Crossref maintenance windows. 1 scheduled maintenances may affect Crossref status.
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Oct 06 20266 October - weekly maintenance, release v0.293.0
Scheduled for October 06, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT · until 12:00 PM EDT
We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance - release version v0.293.0 - on 6 October from 1400 to 1600 UTC. Our members may experience delays in deposit system admin tool (doi.crossref.org) processing. Deposits submitted during this time will be ...
Crossref Components Status
Check if any Crossref component is down. View the current status of 8 services and regions.
| Component | Status | Details |
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| APIs status | OK | View details |
| Beta status | OK | View details |
| Content Registration status | OK | View details |
| Integrations and external dependencies status | OK | View details |
| Meta status | OK | View details |
| Metadata files status | OK | View details |
| Metadata Plus status | OK | View details |
| Sites status | OK | View details |
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About Crossref Status and Outage Monitoring
IsDown has monitored Crossref continuously since December 2025. Over that time, we've documented 70 outages and incidents, averaging 7.8 per month.
We monitor Crossref's official status page across 41 components organized into 8 groups. IsDown interprets Crossref statuses (operational, degraded performance, partial outage, and major outage) to deliver precise health metrics and filter alerts by the components you actually use.
To check if Crossref is down, IsDown combines official status data with user reports for early detection. Vendors often delay acknowledging problems, so user reports help us alert you before the official announcement.
Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to track Crossref status and receive verified outage alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.
How IsDown Monitors Crossref
IsDown checks Crossref's status page every few minutes, across all 41 components. We combine official status data with user reports to detect when Crossref is down, often before the vendor announces it.
When Crossref status changes, IsDown sends alerts to your preferred channels. Filter by severity to skip noise and focus on outages that affect your business.
What you get when monitoring Crossref with IsDown
Track Crossref incidents and downtimes by severity
IsDown checks Crossref official status page for major/minor outages or downtimes. A major outage is when Crossref experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. A minor incident is when Crossref experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. The moment we detect a Crossref outage, we send you an alert and update your dashboard and status page.
Get alerted as soon as users report problems with Crossref
Crossref and other vendors don't always report outages on time. IsDown collects user reports to provide early detection of outages. This way, even without an official status update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.
All the details of Crossref outages and downtimes
IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Crossref status page to provide the context of the outage. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.
Prepare for upcoming Crossref maintenance events
Crossref publishes scheduled maintenance events on their status page. IsDown collects all the information for each event and creates a feed that people can follow to ensure they are not surprised by unexpected downtime or problems. We also send the feed in our weekly report, alerting the next maintenances that will take place.
Only get alerted on the Crossref outages that impact your business
IsDown monitors Crossref and all their 41 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.
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Crossref Downdetector vs IsDown
Looking for Crossref outage alerts like Downdetector? IsDown monitors Crossref's official status page for verified incident data, not just user reports. Know exactly when Crossref is down, which components are affected, and when service health is restored. Here's why official Crossref status monitoring beats crowdsourced detection:
| Features | IsDown | Downdetector |
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| Official Crossref status page monitoring. Know when Crossref is down with real time incident details. | ||
| Monitor 6,320+ services including Crossref in a single dashboard. | ||
| Instant Crossref outage alerts sent to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more. | ||
| Combined monitoring: Crossref official status plus user reports for early outage detection. | ||
| Maintenance feed for Crossref | ||
| Granular alerts filtering by Crossref components and regions. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Crossref down today?
Crossref isn't down. You can check Crossref status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Crossref official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 1 outages reported.
What is the current Crossref status?
Crossref is currently operational. You can check Crossref status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
Is there a Crossref outage now?
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Is Crossref down today or just slow?
Currently there's no report of Crossref being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
How are Crossref outages detected?
IsDown monitors the Crossref official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Is Crossref having an outage right now?
Crossref last outage was on October 05, 2026 with the title "Metadata Plus REST API not validating API keys"
How often does Crossref go down?
IsDown has tracked 70 Crossref incidents since December 2025.
Is Crossref down for everyone or just me?
Check the Crossref status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Crossref is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.
What Crossref components does IsDown monitor?
IsDown monitors 41 Crossref components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.
How to check if Crossref is down?
- Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
- Create an account in IsDown. Start monitoring Crossref and get alerts in real-time when Crossref has outages.
Why use IsDown to monitor Crossref instead of the official status page?
Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Crossref and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.
How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Crossref?
IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Crossref is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Crossref's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.
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